Definitions for shorn

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shorn shorn

Spelling: [shawrn, shohrn]

IPA: /ʃɔrn, ʃoʊrn/

Shorn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in shorn (hnors).

Definitions for shorn

noun

1. Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
2. the act or process of shearing or being sheared.
3. a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep):
4. the quantity, especially of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing.
5. one blade of a pair of large scissors.
6. Usually, shears. (usually used with a plural verb). Also, sheers. Also called shear legs, sheerlegs. a framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle.
7. a machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it.
8. Mechanics, Geology. the tendency of forces to deform or fracture a member or a rock in a direction parallel to the force, as by sliding one section against another.
9. Physics. the lateral deformation produced in a body by an external force, expressed as the ratio of the lateral displacement between two points lying in parallel planes to the vertical distance between the planes.

verb

1. a past participle of shear.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut (something).
2. to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument:
3. to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from:
4. to strip or deprive (usually followed by of):
5. Chiefly Scot. to reap with a sickle.
6. to travel through by or as if by cutting:

verb (used without object)

1. to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument.
2. to progress by or as if by cutting:
3. Mechanics, Geology. to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane.
4. Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle.

Origin of shorn

before 900; (v.) Middle English sheren, Old English sceran, cognate with Dutch, German scheren, Old Norse skera; (noun) (in sense “tool for shearing”) Middle English sheres (plural), continui

Examples for shorn

shorn was the unkempt mop of hair and vanished the impudent swagger.

Even shorn of all that gratuitous nudity, though, Drive He Said would be far from a masterpiece.

The hair was shorn after the gassings, then efficiently dried in the crematoria so it could be industrially spun into carpeting.

The facades of two six-story buildings have been shorn off, allowing a glimpse into wrecked apartments.

The yard, which had been so attractive, was shorn of its decorations.

When it was all shorn off she crept out of the room without opening her eyes.

God, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, will watch over you!

Though they may be shorn of their glory, they retain their place in the organism of knowledge.

shorn of the details Romney seldom discusses, his drumbeat appeal is simple.

You'll be shorn like a lamb one of these days, with your benevolence.